Ari Herzog

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How Bloggers and Webmasters Violate Your Privacy With Google Analytics

Ari Herzog

You will have and abide by an appropriate privacy policy and will comply with all applicable laws relating to the collection of information from visitors to Your websites. You must post a privacy policy and that policy must provide notice of your use of a cookie that collects anonymous traffic data. We’re all using it illegally.

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Protect Your Online Privacy: Say NO to Ad Cookies

Ari Herzog

Sometimes the website has a privacy policy that tells you this, sometimes it doesn’t. It might be something to consider, especially if you are paranoid about too many companies knowing about your browsing habits. -- Thank you for reading Protect Your Online Privacy: Say NO to Ad Cookies at AriWriter.

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How GDPR Impacts Your World

Ari Herzog

This is important because the law is explicit that noncompliant companies which pose a risk to EU citizens and their privacy may be fined up to 20 million Euros ($25.5 Twitter , Meetup , Quora , Paper.li , Kickstarter , and Moo are among the companies that recently emailed me links to their updated GDPR-compliant privacy policies.

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Meet the Fediverse

Ari Herzog

The larger services have corporate investment, advertisements, and privacy concerns. Mashable applauded privacy controls and community standards. It’s not possible for a Facebook user to message a Twitter user. But that frequently happens from Mastodon to Hubzilla. The Fediverse is open sourced and decentralized. Meet Mastodon.

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Why Foursquare and I Split Up

Ari Herzog

” Citing privacy concerns, I initially deleted my Foursquare account in October 2010. But considering I have more local and regional friends on Facebook than on Swarm; my productivity will increase by using Facebook than Foursquare.” ” “It’s been a fun ride with you; but time to delete my account.”

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Approaching Strangers Through Foursquare

Ari Herzog

Using GPS chips embedded in your smartphone and latitude/longitude addresses, it is fairly easy for me to log into an app such as Foursquare , Loopt , or Google Latitude and (if your privacy settings allow me to) see who is proximate to my location. This privacy intrusion is why I deleted my Foursquare account two years ago.

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Guess Who is Back on Foursquare

Ari Herzog

Citing privacy concerns and not wanting strangers to know where I was every moment I checked in to a location, I deleted my Foursquare account 14 months ago. Is the concern of privacy real or imagined? Make no mistake I’m an early adopter of technology. How are social influence sites such as Klout and PeerIndex involved?